Brazilian

Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)

Name: Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 2 cups long grain rice; 1 lb chicken breast; 1 onion; 1 cup tomato sauce; 1/2 cup frozen peas; 1 cup hard cheese; 2 tbsp cooking oil; 1.5 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper

Rafael @rafael_sp09

Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

55 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups long grain rice
1 lb chicken breast
1 onion
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 cup hard cheese
2 tbsp cooking oil
1.5 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 375F.
Cook the rice separately in salted water until tender.
Cut the chicken into small cubes and saute with the diced onion in the oil 8 minutes until cooked through.
Stir in the tomato sauce and peas and simmer 5 minutes, then fold in the cooked rice.
Spread the mixture in a baking dish, scatter the cheese over the top, and bake 20 minutes until golden and bubbling.
Rest 5 minutes before serving, a self-contained weeknight bake.

Watch how to cook Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The protein alongside
- Feijao Carioca (Brazilian Pink Beans)
  
  50 min
What it is eaten with
- Arroz Branco (Brazilian White Rice)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Maionese de Batata (Brazilian Potato Salad)
  
  35 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Bife Acebolado (Steak with Onions)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 560 kcal
Protein: 39 g
Carbs: 66 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 1020 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.